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But if what I don`t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
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Conflict Confirms Consent
Commentators agree that this verse reveals a paradox: your internal conflict with sin is proof that you agree with God's law. When you do something you don't want to do, your hatred for that action shows that your inner self, your renewed will, consents that the law forbidding it is good and right.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
I consent unto the law. The very struggle with evil shows that it is not loved, or approved, but that the law which condemns it is really …
I consent unto the law (συνφημ τω νομω). Old verb, here only in N.T., with associative instrumental case. "I speak with." My wanti…
19th Century
Anglican
But the fact that I desire to do what is right is itself a witness to the excellence of the Law, which commands that which I desire.
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Baptist
If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
If I do that which my will and conscience rebel agains…
At the outset Paul wants it understood that he is not depreciating the law, for it is “spiritual” (GK 4461)—that is, emanating from God (vv.22, 25)…
16th Century
Protestant
But if what I do not desire, I do, I consent to the law, etc.; that is, “When my heart accepts the law and is delighted with its …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If then I do that which I would not This is a corollary, or an inference from what he had related of his own experie…
Compared with the holy rule of conduct in the law of God, the apostle found himself so very far short of perfection that he seemed to be carnal, li…
13th Century
Catholic
After showing that the law is neither evil nor the cause of an evil effect, the Apostle now proves that the law is good.
In this r…
